A 34-yard fourth-down landing go from sophomore quarterback Sid Tildsley to junior receiver Ryan Copson with 2:04 remaining led Shawsheen Tech to a 21-14 victory over Dover-Sherborn at Weston High School on Saturday afternoon.
“I’m speechless right now,” mentioned Copson. “I’m just happy I’m going to the Super Bowl with all of my teammates. We worked so hard for this all year long. We made it.”
Shawsheen will face North Reading (10-1) on Dec. 3 for the Div. 5 championship.
“It was a hard-fought game all the way through,” mentioned senior Mavrick Bourdeau, who took a number of snaps at quarterback for the Rams. “We couldn’t have asked for a better game.”
The back-and-forth contest wasn’t over till a fourth-down go by Raider quarterback Garrett Webb fell incomplete with 1:15 to go.
Shawsheen (11-0) took a 7-0 lead with 5:45 left within the second quarter after a sack by freshman James Tildsley compelled a fumble that was recovered by junior Cullen Walsh on the Raider 24-yard line.
Five performs later, Sid Tildsley scored on a 3-yard run with a stretching leap to the pylon. Sophomore Jack Finn added the additional level.
A 17-yard go to senior Mavrick Bourdeau on a fourth-and-six play arrange the landing.
Dover Sherborn moved to the Shawsheen 31-yard line on its subsequent possession, however on fourth-and-10, Webb was intercepted by Sid Tildsley, who returned the choose 72 yards for a landing and a 14-0 lead for the Rams with 2:45 to go earlier than halftime.
The vaunted Raider protection made an affect within the second half, recovering a fumble on the Shawsheen 29-yard line halfway by way of the third quarter and turning the takeaway right into a landing.
Senior Michael Polk scored on a 5-yard run with 5 minutes left within the quarter.
The further level missed, retaining Shawsheen up eight, 14-6.
An interception by Raider senior Mekhi Robinson, who additionally recovered the fumble, led to a different Dover-Sherborn rating.
Led by Polk, the Raiders drove 31 yards for a landing when Polk picked up a fumbled snap and pitched to junior Emilio Cabey, who scored for 2 yards out. The conversion go from Webb to Cabey tied the sport at 14.
An odd sequence would comply with.
Shawsheen fumbled the following kickoff and the Raiders recovered on the Ram 14-yard line earlier than Dover-Sherborn fumbled on the very subsequent play and Shawsheen pounced on the free ball.
The Rams then drove 85 yards for the profitable landing
Completions of 17, 11 and 23 yards to Bourdeau arrange the rating.
“We work so hard, that’s the reason we’re in this position,” Bourdeau mentioned. “This is a family, that’s really what it is. Everyone doubts us because we’re a tech school, that’s how it is and it will always be like that, but here we are, we’re going to Gillette.”
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